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Pamela Geller: A Response to My Critics
Time ^ | 6 May 2015 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 05/07/2015 11:50:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Sunday in Garland, Texas, a police officer was wounded in a battle that is part of a longstanding war: the war against the freedom of speech. Some people are blaming me for the Garland shooting — so I want to address that here?

The shooting happened at my American Freedom Defense Initiative Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, when two Islamic jihadists armed with rifles and explosives drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland and attempted to gain entry to our event, which was just ending. We were aware of the risk and spent thousands of dollars on security — and it paid off. The jihadis at our free speech event were not able to achieve their objective of replicating the massacre at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine last January — and to go it one better in carnage. They were not able to kill anyone. We provided enormous security, in concert with the superb Garland police department. The men who took the aspiring killers down may have saved hundreds of lives.

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1 posted on 05/07/2015 11:50:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Bttt.

5.56mm

2 posted on 05/07/2015 11:51:23 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Rummyfan

Since liberalism, Radical Islam and democracy don’t mix, what is next?


3 posted on 05/07/2015 11:53:28 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Rummyfan
HERO

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4 posted on 05/07/2015 11:53:43 AM PDT by repentant_pundit (Sammy's your uncle, but he behaves like a spoiled rotten brat.)
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To: Rummyfan
Wonder how it came about she wrote this article for TIME?

Surely to make their readers head explode.

5 posted on 05/07/2015 11:53:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: repentant_pundit

Yes


6 posted on 05/07/2015 11:55:30 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: A CA Guy

Since the would-be jihadi murderers in Garland were dispatched to their 72 virgins by an extraordinary cop, the ersatz “conservative” attacks on PAMELA GELLER — most especially those by Trump, some of the talking heads on Fox (the super LIGHTWEIGHT Martha McCallum among them) and the usual suspects on the other networks — have me asking how much of the insane multicultural/diversity/tolerance Kool-Aid these people have consumed.

Many of the attacks are based on assertions that Geller is actively pissing off muslims to elevate her PERSONAL STATUS and for PERSONAL GAIN. Anyone care to speculate how these modern day Quislings would have responded to Thomas Payne’s publication of “Common Sense”, Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” or that troublemaker Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence”, all actions clearly capable of pissing off King George?

Geller’s actions have had what I suspect is her desired effect of RAISING THE AWARENESS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS — far too many of whom have the attention span of a fruit fly (thank you GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS!) — to the GROWING ASSAULT ON THE WEST BY THE TYRANNICAL AND MURDEROUS POLITICAL SYSTEM KNOWN AS ISLAM, DEVIOUSLY MASQUERADING AS A “RELIGION” SO AS TO AVAIL ITSELF OF THIS NATION’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. THAT THEY DO SO WHILE NOT ONLY DENYING GELLER HERS BUT PLEDGING TO DENY HER THAT MOST BASIC RIGHT OF LIFE ITSELF!

If her activities DO elevate her personal status, SO BE IT!! I will consider it a just reward for her having put her life in very real jeopardy from the followers of the “religion of peace”.

Want to know what islam is REALLY UP TO (aided and abetted by many of our own “leaders”), watch and share the 4 minute video at the link below — unless, of course, there’s some really cool new show on The Comedy Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PzT8vEvYPg&feature=em-subs_digest


7 posted on 05/07/2015 11:57:50 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Rummyfan
Drawing Muhammad offends Islamic jihadists? So does being Jewish. How much accommodation of any kind should we give to murderous savagery? To kowtow to violent intimidation will only encourage more of it.

Being non-Muslim offends Islamic jihadists. Sooner or later we must stop cowering and stand up and fight. This is a harsh reality that the west had better get a hold of.

8 posted on 05/07/2015 11:58:21 AM PDT by fhayek
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When the pendulum turns.. islamics will be running and hiding under rocks... if they are lucky..

America is NO England.. tick.. tick.. tick.. tick.. tick..
and it may NOT be only muzzies.. smell.... the fuse is lit..

at some point the felafela will hit the fan..


9 posted on 05/07/2015 11:58:50 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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10 posted on 05/07/2015 12:00:33 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Dick Bachert

Liberals for generations have been taking advantage of American tolerance. How else do you think we get to where we are now?
Brainwashing in college and lower schools by the government teacher’s union for years. We all allowed it since I don’t remember all the protests across the country in mass anywhere. This IMO is what is biting us in the ass regarding dealing with multiculturalism, third and forth sexes and other total bull.


11 posted on 05/07/2015 12:01:58 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: repentant_pundit
Logic 101...that leftists simply cannot grasp.

"So, why are some people blaming me? They’re saying: “Well, she provoked them! She got what she deserved!” They don’t remember, or care to remember, that as the jihadis were killing the Muhammad cartoonists in Paris, their friend and accomplice was murdering Jews in a nearby kosher supermarket. Were the Jews asking for it? Did they “bait” the jihadis? Were they “provoking” them?"

12 posted on 05/07/2015 12:02:39 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Dick Bachert

PS: Mohammed, piss be upon him.


13 posted on 05/07/2015 12:02:39 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: TexasCajun

That might be why the poster added a question mark at the end of the second sentence. Some kind of editorial comment?


14 posted on 05/07/2015 12:03:08 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Rummyfan

She has a good point.

Now, my religion forbids me to do such a contest as she has. I am too offended by insulting the religions of others to do so, which is the #1 rule in life. Treat others the way you would be treated. I am offended by many Hollywood movies dissing Christianity. It doesn’t have to be as bad as piss Christ. I’m offended by the Klansman and the musical the book of Mormon.

But her point is excellent. Look to what you cannot print to know who rules you. We cannot let Sharia law be one bit more respected than other beliefs.


15 posted on 05/07/2015 12:03:14 PM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way... I love it when we're Cruzin together")
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To: Lisbon1940
Pam taking it straight to her liberal Time critics.

Gotta love her.

16 posted on 05/07/2015 12:06:18 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Rummyfan
EXCLUSIVE: FBI, DHS Assessed Terror Attack Threat to Texas ‘Draw Muhammad’ Contest as ‘UNLIKELY’
17 posted on 05/07/2015 12:07:12 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Dick Bachert

It seems the mainstream media didn’t know who the hell she was - although, certainly, the British media does having helped to ban her from GB. Now most of us here have been following her for years - I’ve certainly been to some of her NYC events. She is well-known to the conservative media so to say she did this out of the blue to gain fame is stupid. But then we’re dealing with the main stream media...

Love Pam - a really nice lady, too.


18 posted on 05/07/2015 12:07:26 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Rummyfan
"And make no mistake: If it weren’t for the free-speech conference, these jihadis would have struck somewhere else — a place where there was less security, like the Lindt cafe in Australia or the Hyper Cacher Kosher supermarket in Paris."
19 posted on 05/07/2015 12:10:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Rummyfan

More guts in Pamela Geller than in the entire Congress and the MSM combined.


20 posted on 05/07/2015 12:14:11 PM PDT by onedoug
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